Bible dictionaries
Boat
What Bible dictionaries say about “Boat”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Boat - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
BOAT, n.
1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names, as, long-boat,lanch, barge, pinnace,jolly-boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat,perogue, _c.
2. A small vessel carrying a mast and sails; but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat. _c.
BOAT, v.t. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
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See SHIPS AND BOATS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915